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The County of Anderson was created from Houston County in 1846, it was first settled in the 1830's and organized the 1846.  It is a South East region of Texas.  The county is named for K. L. Anderson, the last Vice President of the Republic of Texas.    The county seat is located in Palestine.  Thus far we have only found the following  records for the TOTTY families in this county.

1870 Census Records
TOTTY, William T.   E. D. 4    page 123
Notes:  Full Transcription of this census record is needed to help Identify William T. TOTTY.   Any help is appreciated.

A newspaper account of April 29, 1846, describes an encounter of Col. Leonard G. Williams's trading party with Cynthia, who was camped with Comanches on the Canadian River. Despite Williams's ransom offers, tribal elders refused to release her. Later, federal officials P. M. Butler and M. G. Lewis encountered Cynthia Ann with the Yamparika Comanches on the Washita River; by then she was a full-fledged member of the tribe and married to a Comanche warrior. She never voluntarily returned to white society.   Indian agent Robert S. Neighbors learned, probably in 1848, that she was among the Tenawa Comanches. He was told by other Comanches that only force would induce her captors to
release her. She had married Peta Nocona and eventually had two sons, Quanah Parker and
Pecos, and a daughter, Topsannah.

On December 18, 1860, Texas Rangers qv under Lawrence Sullivan Ross qv attacked a Comanche hunting camp at Mule Creek, a tributary of the Pease River. During this raid the rangers captured three of the supposed Indians. They were surprised to find that one of them had blue eyes; it was a non-English-speaking white woman with her infant daughter. Col. Isaac Parker later identified her as his niece, Cynthia Ann. Cynthia accompanied her uncle to Birdville on the condition that military interpreter Horace P. Jones would send along her sons if they were found. While traveling through Fort Worth she was photographed with her daughter at her breast and her hair cut short-a Comanche sign of mourning. She thought that Peta Nocona was dead and feared that she would never see her sons again.
On April 8, 1861, a sympathetic Texas legislature voted her a grant of $100 annually for five years and a league of land and appointed Isaac D. and Benjamin F. Parker her guardians.    But she was never reconciled to living in white society and made several unsuccessful attempts to flee to her Comanche family. After three months at Birdville, her brother Silas took her to his Van Zandt County home. She afterward moved to her sister's place near the boundary of Anderson and Henderson counties. Though she is said in some sources to have died in 1864, the 1870 census enrolled her and gave her age as forty-five. At her death she was buried in Fosterville Cemetery in Anderson County. In 1910 her son Quanah moved her body to the Post Oak Cemetery near Cache, Oklahoma. She was later moved to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and reinterred beside Quanah. In the last years of Cynthia Ann's life she never saw her Indian family, the only family she really knew. But she was a true pioneer of the American West, whose legacy was carried on by her son Quanah. Serving as a link between whites and Comanches, Quanah Parker became the most influential Comanche leader of the reservation era.

Source:  BIBLIOGRAPHY: James T. DeShields, Cynthia Ann Parker: The Story of Her Capture (St. Louis,
1886; rpts.: The Garland Library of Narratives of North American Indian Captivities, Vol. 95,
New York: Garland, 1976; Dallas: Chama Press, 1991).
Cynthia Ann Parker: The Life and the Legend (El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1990).
Grace Jackson, Cynthia Ann Parker (San Antonio: Naylor, 1959). Paul I. Wellman,
"Cynthia Ann Parker," Chronicles of Oklahoma 12 (June 1934). Women of Texas (Waco: Texian
Press, 1972).  © The Texas State Historical Association, 1997.

1850 Anderson County Texas
19 Sept. 1850
pg. 10
HH 62/62
Andrew J. Phenix      34 m farmer 400    Va.
Leah                          29 f                        Ill.
Charles L.                  14 m                       "
Emily                           9 f                         "
Susan M.                     7 f                         "
{TLD} Andrew J. PHENIX is the grandfather of Allen Andrew PHENIX who married Tennie TOTTY.  Charles L. PHENIX  is Allen's father.

9 June 1860
Palestine pg. 22, Beat 3
B. T. Duval -Ass't. Marshal
HH # 96/93
A.J. Phenix      44 m farmer    500/550    Va.
Rebecca           25 f                                 Miss.
Emily                18 f                                  Ill.
Susan M.          15 f                                  "
Julia A.               3 f                                   Texas
Robert M.          6/12 m                             "
{TLD} Note that Andrew J. PHENIX now has a new wife.  I have yet to discover the maiden names of either of his wives.
Addendum:  AndrewPHENIX married Francis Rebecca CLARK  5-12-1856.

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Ed. 4 pg. 123   prct. 3
5 July 1880
T.G. Greenhaus?
Totty, Wm. T.    w m 46 farmer    Ga.    N?       N?
    Mary E.          w f  52  wife        Miss     Ohio    ?
    Willie              w m 20 son         Texas     Ga. Miss.
    Ida Belle         w f   12 dau.        Texas     Ga. Miss.
Austin, ? D.        mu m 15 servan    Texas

{2nd house down}
Campbell, W.H.     wm 56    merchant    Ala    Ky    Nc
            Isa              wf   47 wife              Miss Ohio   Sc
 Peel, Retitas            wf  22 adopted        Tx.    Al. Miss
Totty, Wallace        wm  17 nephew        Tx. Ga. Miss.
{TLD} Wallace is the son of William T. and Mary E. TOTTY.  Apparently, Mary and Isa (Isabella) are sisters. Since we are on the William T. Totty family I will throw in the 1860 census of them although they are not in Anderson County.
Note: see Also Cherokee County, Texas, for this 1860 census record.
{TLD} ADDITION: William H. CAMPBELL married Isabella WALLACE in Cherokee County, Texas 23 October 1852.
William TOTTY maried Mrs. Mary A. E. THOMPSON in Cherokee County, Texas on 4 May 1859.

to be continued
 

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